Alison Chester-Lambert is a longtime professional astrologer, who runs a School of Astrology and broadcasts horoscopes for the BBC, so while she doesn't shy away from taking controversial positions, she seems to have the credentials to back them up. In The Future in the Stars she describes how the discovery and naming of new planets and the demotion of Pluto to the status of dwarf planet tell us what life will be like in the 21st century. This broad-ranging book is a fascinating mix of astrology, psychology, cultural anthropology and physics.

She expects a period of extreme change, but no 2012 cataclysm. In fact, she thinks we have been looking at the wrong solstice and the summer rather than the winter solstice of 2012 is much more interesting. She sees in the stars a call for a revolution on many levels - spiritual, technological, environmental and social. Her original take on the nature of the underworld, our connection to Gods and Goddesses, and "Lake of Souls" turns conventional religious understandings on their heads. Very interesting reading.

— Miriam Knight, New Consciousness Review